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...mission of public health is to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy," Mann said. "Our analysis is that people whose rights and dignity are respected are thereby assured of the conditions in which they can be healthy...
...example, Mann feels the low status of women in most societies has numerous negative effects on their health. Forced prostitution in Burma and female genital mutilation in Africa are but two examples...
...Mann said that the medical care given by doctors is a "relatively small piece of the health picture...
...United States, about one-sixth of the increase in life expectancy since the beginning of this century is due to medical care," said Mann. "The rest is due to the underlying conditions that are actually societal and environmental...
...Mann said such societal issues as education, income and jobs were important factors in determining health, as evidenced by the poor generally having shorter lives than the rich...